Adventus

Adventus is the Latin word which advent is derived from and basically means "arrival". Advent is the time of waiting for the arrival of Christmas, the coming of Jesus to earth when he was born as a baby in Bethlehem about 2000 years ago. Well with all that history it is nice to see Joshua is fully into the spirit of advent. Within 3 days of December the little boy recognised his advent calendars and understood that there are chocolates behind the doors. Now it has become a routine that after dinner we sit on the bean bag and open the next days door. Usually Joshua grabs the white chocolate and then scuttles off with a big grin on his face.

The little monkey has also mastered the knack of pulling items off of the Christmas tree. Tonight he managed to nab his first chocolate off of the tree and unwrap it himself!!!! Unfortunately he started to eat the wrapper without realising the brown bit inside was a choccie!

The bad news for today is that progress on Joshie's penthouse suite has been temporarily delayed. Good old Basildon Council have decided that we need to get full planning permission in addition to building and reg approval. This is going to take 8 weeks!!! Apparently when the estate was build the council made some agreement that anyone putting windows into the roof or walls must apply for planning approval. I guess the chances of getting the building done before the arrival of J2 is now ZERO!